Personality Change

“It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in alcoholism. This is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality change.”

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“We thought “conditions” drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these donditions and found that we couldn’t do so to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics. It never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were.”

1. Letter, 1940
2. Twelve and Twelve, Pg. 47

Here is Bob D’s story and his personality change through working the steps.